GROUP 1 - UNIT 2

The End Of  "The Terror"

The last 9 of termidor (27 of July) the Jacobin Maximilien Robespierre who exerted the power over France has been executed by guillotine. 

Guillotine for Robespierre.

The French Republic was passing through difficult moments because the leader of the Jacobins, Maximilien Robespierre, was exerting his power and killing around 40000 people. Because of this on the afternoon of the 9th of termidor (27th of July) he was acussed of tyranny and  was arrested with his allies Saint-Just and Couthon and his brother Augustin Robespierre under the Convention . They were freed by the Comuna of Paris at night. The next day they were imprisoned with the leaders of the Comuna who supported them. They were declared to be acting illegally and they were guillotined the 10th of termidor (the next day) without a trial.                                                           

    

GROUP 3 - UNIT 2

LOUIS XVI LOST HIS HEAD

Almost all french people united in favor of the execution of the king.

At the end of last year,the national convention proclaims the republic,judge the king accusing him of treason and he is condemned to death after a vote that was approved by a vote of difference.

21ST JANUARY 1793

On the morning of January 21, 1793, Louis XVI left the Temple in a coach. At ten-fifteen in the morning, the condemned man arrived at the place where the guillotine was installed, the so-called Square of Revolution. Some guards tried to tie his hands, but Louis refused indignantly: "You will do what you have been ordered, but you will never bind me." Louis tried to escape but was arrested in the attempt by the executioner and he said: "People, I am innocent of the crimes I am accused of! May my blood never fall on France!".One or two minutes after ten twenty, he was finally guillotined.

LOUIS XVI

Decapitated already, a young member of the National Guard picked up the bloodied head and showed it to the people walking around the scaffold. Suddenly someone said "Long live the Republic!" The majority of those present began to sing "La Marseillaise," while some spectators began to dance in a circle around the scaffold.

The guards, meanwhile, placed the corpse along with the head in a wicker basket that was moved to a car. He later went to the Magdalena cemetery, where Louis XVI of Borbon, the last monarch of the Old French Regime, was buried.

The question that the French are asking: Will the republic be a better form of government for French citizens? We will continue informing.